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Feedback from a mother who works in my daughter’s medical office (2). She explains how her child’s chronic constipation was eliminated by drastically reducing the consumption of dairy products.

“I am the mother of a ten year old little girl that suffered from constipation from the time she was two years of age. She was very fond of cheese and used to eat about 6 slices of cheese every day, in addition to the usual milk suggested by her doctor.

We took her to her doctor and she suggested for her to drink more water and to add some prune juice into her diet. After about three months, we could tell she wasn’t having any problems going to the bathroom, but she had the opposite effect – she had diarrhea. So we stopped the prune juice and started using laxative once in a while to help when it got really bad.

So there I was six years later, still trying to figure out why this poor girl was constipated. She ate very well and her doctor couldn’t find out anything wrong with her. The poor girl was suffering a lot whenever she passed stool and for that fear she used to even hold it as along as she could which was not good.

I spoke about this problem to my office manager C S (Suryanarayana Chennapragada) one day. He reads up on a lot of different topics. He asked me what was in my daughter’s diet (1). I explained to him how much she loved dairy products, cheese mostly and she also drank a lot of milk.

He suggested discontinuing all dairy for about a week to see what would happen. So we did. Within three days of stopping all dairy, specially the huge quantities of cheese she was fond of eating, she reported an improvement in passing stool. Since last one year, she has been constipation free. She can still have her dairy but we have limited the amount that she has.

Thanks to C S for suggesting the dairy reduction solution because neither we nor her doctor thought that was the cause of her constipation.”